I’m doing a BA at Auckland University and I’m doing a double major in Asian Studies and Art History.

Until the middle of last year I was only majoring in Asian studies and then I discovered I would be hamstrung if I chose to do Post Grad studies in that area…you have to have an Asian language & that is not something I want to even try!

I then realised I had had enough Art History papers to mean that I could do a double major….

I mostly like the Asian study papers, in fact I’m enjoying learning about those countries indepth. They come into the limelight every now and then but really the past history and now their adaption to Western world is fascinating.

I got very brassed off with my Art History paper this semester as it was sooooooooo like another I did last year; with the same lecturer! Nearly every lecture with powerpoint slides had something in it from last year. So I got bored, which didn’t particularily help.

But the exploring Japan and the Japanese made up for that….I thoroughly enjoyed that.

I think I have probably passed all my papers…maybe not with A’s but hey I don’t mind as long as I have some sort of mark from C upwards.

Next Semester which begins July 20th I’m off to China @ Mao Zedong and the cultural revolution; coming back to NZ @ Maori art; dashing off to East Asia @ Geography culture/envirnoment.

One area that opened up for at Uni…that I didn’t know I would like to investigate occured last year – Ethnomusicology which comes in under the umbrella of Anthropology….there is possibility that I could do something PG in that. I’m going to see the advisor in this area during the next Semester (he’s out of town at a conf right now)

Sorry for not being around for a bit, but I’ve been overwhelmed with a whole variety of goal-oriented needs. I am back, though.

I know you’re up to your ears right now, but when you have time I would love to know more about your classes. What are you majoring in? Which classes do you like best? Etc., etc.

exam #1 is completed….one of the questions threw me into a spin as I had never heard of the ‘art critic’….much later when I was home, after the exam I discovered him in the small print of Russia constructivism. He was not mentioned at all in our exam revision sooooooooo I wasn’t all that pleased. I just had to wing that question as the other ‘art critic’ I did know!

and basically we had only one lecture of Russian modernity and a very small sum of it on Constructivism

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“I only wish people could experience that.” I agree! It’s such a waste.